Guillermina De Ferrari
Credentials: Halls-Bascom Professor
Position title: Halls-Bascom Professor of Spanish
Pronouns: she/her
Email: gdeferrari@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-2093
Address:
1132 Van Hise Hall
Office Hours: By appointment.
Education
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001
Research Interests
Caribbean studies; Latin American literature; visual studies; photography.
Biography
Guillermina De Ferrari is Halls-Bascom Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, De Ferrari has published extensively on Caribbean literatures and visual cultures. She is the author of Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction (2007), Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba (2014). She served as director of the Center for Visual Cultures and curated the exhibition Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today (Chazen Museum of Art 2015). She co-edited The Routledge Companion to 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms with Mariano Siskind (2022). Her book, Broken Tropics: Contingency in Contemporary Caribbean Art, is forthcoming with the University of California Press.
Publications
Broken Tropics: Contingency in Contemporary Caribbean Art. University of California Press, 2026.
The Routledge Companion to 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms. Edited by Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind. London and New York: Routledge, 2022.
“A Horizontal Hospitality.” In The Routledge Companion to 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms. Edited by Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind. London and New York: Routledge, 2022; 320-330.
“The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (2021) 25 (3 (66)). (peer review)
“Net, Module, Chance: Repairing Cuba.” Interventions 23 : 4 (2020) 544-569. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XN7XX6N3XPRJFG3NGUEP/full?target=10.1080/1369801X.2020.1762700
“A Caribbean Hauntology: The Sensorial Art of Joscelyn Gardner and M. NourbeSe Philip,”Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 27.3 (2018):271–93.
“Cuba: a Curated Culture.” In Latin American Cultural Studies: a Reader, edited by Jens Anderman, Ben Bollig, Lorraine Leu, Daniel Mosquera, Rory O’Bryen and David M. J. Wood, 140–61. (New York: Routledge, 2017).
“Opacity and Sensation in Reynier Leyva Novo’s Historical Installations,” InVisible Culture 22 (2015).
Teaching
CHICLA/LACIS/SPANISH 282: Citizens of Photography